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1. Shirt taken from an SS storeroom at a concentration camp by a Hungarian Jewish inmate and worn after liberation
2002.175.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.175.1
Date:
use: 1945 May 05-1945 May 07
…Shirt taken from an SS storeroom at a concentration camp by a Hungarian Jewish inmate and worn after liberation…
2. Leather belt taken from an SS storeroom at a concentration camp and worn by a Hungarian Jewish inmate after liberation
2002.175.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.175.2
Date:
use: 1945 May 05-1945 May 07
…Leather belt taken from an SS storeroom at a concentration camp and worn by a Hungarian Jewish inmate after liberation…
3. Memoirs of Lyubov Tartakover about her husband Shulem-Yankel Leibovich, Holocaust survivor
Document | Accession Number: 2006.348 | RG Number: RG-31.048
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…, Gross-Rosen and other concentration camps, liberation and repatriation. Also includes one photograph and three drawings.…
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 … and other concentration camps, liberation and repatriation. Also includes one photograph and three drawings. System of Arrangement This collection is…
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  • File 1: Memoirs of Lyubov Tartakover about her husband Shulem-Yankel Leibovich 1997, Chapter 1- Auschwitz/Birkenau, A-10312; Chapter 2 – To the Right – To the Left; Chapter 3 – Selection of the Children; Chapter 4 – Deathly, Bottomless Deep; Chapter 5 – On the Drill Grounds; Chapter 6 – Doctor Mengel; Chapter 7 – Turmoil; Chapter 8 – My Friend, Mitya Spritz; Chapter 9 – I was Ashamed; Chapter 10 – Liberation; Chapter 11 – Munich; Chapter 12 – The SS General’s Hat; Chapter 13 – June 6, 1945; Chapter 14 – The Women’s Camp in Auschwitz; Chapter 15 – Epilogue; Chapter 16 – By Word of Mouth; Chapter 17 – The Fate of one Jew is the Fate of All Jews; Chapter 18 – In Defiance – the City of David [On Campus Only]
    4. Sketchbook of drawings created by a former concentration camp prisoner
    CM_1995.59.1_001 front
    Object | Accession Number: 1995.59.1
    Date:
    depiction: 1944 September 20-approximately 1950
    … he became so weak that he passed out and remained unconscious for three days. Soviet forces liberated the camp on January 27, 1945. After liberation…
    5. Renée Fodor Schwarz writings
    1991.A.0095 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 31
    Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0095
    Date:
    inclusive: 1984-1994
    … school because she was Jewish. She survived the Krakow ghetto, Płaszów labor camp, Auschwitz concentration camp, and a death march during the Holocaust…
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     … school because she was Jewish. She survived the Krakow ghetto, Plaszow labor camp, Auschwitz concentration camp, and a death march during the Holocaust…
    6. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
    1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
    Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
    Date:
    inclusive: circa 1932-1985
    …The Anne Frank Fonds has asserted copyright over all materials created by Otto Frank until 60 years after his death. Any requests to republish these…
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     … between approximately 1945 and 1985. The materials document mail systems in and around Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps and, by extension, the…
    7. Cloth square cut from a blue and gray striped concentration camp inmate uniform
    1988.82.4 front
    Object | Accession Number: 1988.82.4
    Date:
    1943
    … to the camp police. Heinz, age 32, was sent to Ebensee slave labor camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen) where he died just before liberation in May 1945…
    8. Metal identification pendant belonging to a Czech Jewish ghetto-labor camp inmate
    2018.228.1 front
    Object | Accession Number: 2018.228.1
    Date:
    acquired: before 1944 September 28
    …Metal identification pendant belonging to a Czech Jewish ghetto-labor camp inmate…
    9. Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner
    2002.366.1 a front
    Object | Accession Number: 2002.366.1 a-b
    Date:
    use: 1944 December-1945
    acquired: 1944 December-1945 January
    … night. Alice contracted typhus, and weighed 70 pounds when the camp was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945. After liberation, Alice was…
    10. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 25 cent note, acquired by a former inmate
    2018.229.5 front
    Object | Accession Number: 2018.229.5
    Date:
    issue: 1944 February 15-1945 April 12
    acquired: 1944 February 15-1944 September 04
    …World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
    11. Ring with a red heart and inmate numbers made from a spoon in a concentration camp
    2006.467.1, ring with heart made from spoon, Solomon Goldstein Collection
    Object | Accession Number: 2006.467.1
    Date:
    received: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
    creation: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
    … and went to Föhrenwald, a displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany. There, he worked as an auto mechanic and furrier. After Maria’s death in 1955, Lieb…
    12. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note, acquired by a former inmate
    2018.229.4 front
    Object | Accession Number: 2018.229.4
    Date:
    issue: 1944 February 15-1945 April 12
    acquired: 1944 February 15-1944 September 04
    …World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
    13. Medal presented to former inmates of the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the 50th anniversary of its opening
    2018.228.2 a-b 3/4 view open
    Object | Accession Number: 2018.228.2 a-b
    Date:
    commemoration: 1941
    received: 1991
    … Meuselwitz, a subcamp of the Buchenwald camp system in Germany, and escaped a death march. The couple married in February 1948, the same day that the Communist…
    14. Gisela Laufer Wortman, William Laufer, and Naum Wortman papers
    1996.A.0309 Box 2 Folder 15 Image 12
    Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0309
    Date:
    inclusive: circa 1914-2004
    … Committee. Photographs include images of survivors and camp conditions at the Ebensee concentration camp shortly after liberation and Naum Wortman and his…
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     … concentration camp shortly after liberation and Naum Wortman and his family. Printed materials include a 1945 issue of Die Mitteilungen announcing Germany…
    15. Bella and Benjamin Herson papers
    1999.106.27 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
    Document | Accession Number: 1999.106.27
    Date:
    inclusive: circa 1907-2006
    … was put on a train for transport to a POW camp. While the train was passing through Łódź, Benjamin threw a piece of paper out of the window, notifying…
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     …, liberation, return to Łódź, and meeting her husband. Photographs depict Benjamin Herson in the Polish military and in prisoner of war camps, his aunt and…
    16. Nazi atrocities
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    Film | Accession Number: 1998.191.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2418 | Film ID: 68
    Film Title:
    The Death Mills [Die Todesmuehlen]
    Date:
    Event: 1945
    Production: 1945
    Duration:
    00:21:26
    Special Collection:
    Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
    …CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)…
    17. Nazi atrocities
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    Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2214 | Film ID: 858
    Film Title:
    Death Mills [Die Todesmuehlen]
    Date:
    Event: 1945
    Production: 1945
    Duration:
    00:21:24
    Special Collection:
    Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
    …CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)…
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     … other camps 133 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:15,910 thousands were murdered just before liberation. 134 00:09:15,910 --> 00:09:19,132 [MUSIC PLAYING] 135 00:09…
    18. Norbert Wollheim papers
    Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
    Date:
    inclusive: circa 1900-1998
    … to Auschwitz concentration camp. His pregnant wife, Rosa, and their 3-year old son, Uriel perished there. Norbert’s arm was tattooed with the number…
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     … draft for a pictorial exhibition: Rebirth After Liberation – The Bergen-Belsen D.P. Camp, 1945-1950, 1965 47.4 World Zionist Organization. Judy Carr, We…
    19. Henry Zguda papers
    2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
    Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
    Date:
    inclusive: 1937-2003
    …. His mother told him that the Krakow paper had reported his death in a camp. Still ailing, Henryk went to St. Lazarus hospital. It was full, but his…
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     … his mother, Karoline Zguda, during his time in Auschwitz and Buchenwald about life and conditions in the concentration camps and the liberation of…
    20. Basic documents of concentration camp Auschwitz
    Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0324 | RG Number: RG-68.133M
    Date:
    inclusive: 1942-1945
    …Basic documents of concentration camp Auschwitz…
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     … death certificates. Reel 13: Continuation of death certificates. RG-68.133M RG-68.133M Basic Documents of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, 1942 – 1945 9…